Can I install a Mac os on windows using bootcamp?

I want to Install Lion onto my dell Laptop so I can run Disk utility and clone my mac hard drive.
My problem is my mac was saying i was running out of space on my start up drive for a lil while now ...then yesterday it said my start up disk is full.
I was told to get a new hard drive and clone it but didnt know anything about booting up or anything like that. I went and had the guy at the computer shop put in the new hard dive and put my old start up hard drive in an external case. But not now I cant start up because 1. the internal disk isnt formatted and 2. the external is too full to boot up. I heard you can start your comp up as a hard drive but You would need to have a mac to do the cloning. So I wanted to know since I have lion OSX can I use bootcamp to partition my pc hardrive in my Dell to run Lion and do the clone using my PC?

Install the MacDrive trial on the PC and copy off/delete enough data from the Mac drive to allow it to boot up.
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